FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2001

Media General Broadcast Division Promotes Gleason to Vice President

TAMPA, Fla. — Media General's Broadcast Division has promoted Steve Gleason to vice president of programming and program development.

Gleason joined the Company in 1987 and was most recently director of programming for the Broadcast Division. He previously served as program director at WFLA-TV in Tampa, and before that he was program director at WCBD-TV in Charleston, S.C.

In his new role, Gleason will be responsible for program strategy development, syndication acquisition and negotiation, and local program development, as well as identifying and coordinating initiatives with programming cooperatives and broadcast station consortiums.

"Steve has done an outstanding job for us as director of programming, and this promotion is in recognition of his excellent work," said Broadcast Division President James A. Zimmerman. "I am confident that he will be equally as successful as he assumes his new responsibilities."

About Media General
Media General is an independent, publicly owned communications company situated primarily in the Southeast with interests in newspapers, television, interactive media, and diversified information services. Media General's publishing assets include The Tampa Tribune, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Winston-Salem Journal, and 22 other daily newspapers in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina, as well as nearly 100 weeklies and other periodicals and a 20 percent interest in The Denver Post. Media General's 26 network-affiliated television stations reach more than 30 percent of the television households in the Southeast, and nearly 8 percent of those in the United States.